VICTOR DIEDERICHS DUVAL (1885-1945)
Son of Emily and Ernest Diederichs Duval, brother of Elsie Duval and, eventually, brother-in-law of Hugh FRANKLIN. Victor Duval was secretary of the Clapham League of Young Liberals, but resigned from it and became a suffragist after seeing a woman thrown out of one of John Burns's meetings.
In 1909 he helped Marion Wallace-Dimior stencil her petition on the walls of St Stephen's Hall in the House of Commons and in 1910 was the founder of the MEN'S POLITICAL UNION FOR WOMEN'S ENFRANCHISEMENT.
In October 1910 he was imprisoned for a week after a disturbance when he addressed Lloyd George outside the City Temple and in November 1911 received another sentence of five days.
Victor Duval gave his support to the NEW CONSTITUTIONAL SOCIETY FOR WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE in 1910 and was on the committee of the International Women's Franchise Club (see under CLUBS). He published two pamphlets, An Appeal to Men, 1910, and Why I Went to Prison, 1910.
In January 1912 he married Una Dugdale. He spent two years of the First World War at Salonika serving with the Royal Engineers, and on his return rejoined the Liberal party. He stood as a Liberal, unsuccessfully, at three elections, including South Nottinghamshire in 1923 and North Camberwell in 1924.
Address (1913): 18 Harrington Road, London SW.
Photograph: in A. Raeburnn, The Militant Suffragettes, 1973.
Archival source: Duval Papers, Fawcett Library.
[Source: Link.]
[Wikipedia: South West Norfolk (UK Parliament constituency).]
[Source: Camberwell North (UK Parliament constituency).]
Una Harriet Ella Stratford Duval [née Dugdale] (1879 — 1975) was a suffragette and marriage reformer. [1] Her refusal to say "and obey" in her marriage vows made national news.
Una was the debutante ["Catherine Blackford, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.] daughter of Commander Edward Stratford Dugdale and his wife, who were supporters of the suffrage movement. Una was educated at Cheltenham Ladies' College, and later in Hanover and Paris where she studied singing. [ Crawford, Elizabeth (2003). The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide 1866 — 1928. Routledge. p. 177.] She was niece of Arthur Peel, 1st Viscount Peel, Speaker of the House of Commons. [ The Marriage Vow". Ashburton Guardian. New Zealand. 1 March 1912] Her parents household had five servants and they had a holiday home near Aberdeen. [ Crawford, Elizabeth (2003). The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide 1866 — 1928. Routledge. p. 177.]
...
Dugdale sparked a national scandal in 1912 before she married Victor Diederichs Duval (1885 — 1945), who she had met when he acted as best man at Frank Rutter's wedding. Dugdale said she would refuse to use the word "obey" in her marriage vows, but did so after being advised that its omission could cast doubt on the legality of the marriage. [ Alan Travis (10 October 2003). "Big Brother and the sisters". The Guardian. UK. Retrieved 18 June 2015. "SUFFRAGIST WEDDING". North West Post (Formby, Tas.: 1887 — 1916). 6 March 1912. p. 3. Retrieved 24 October 2017.] The wedding took place at the Savoy Chapel, her father led her down the aisle and Christabel Pankhurst, Constance Lytton and the Pethick-Lawrences attended dressed in WSPU colours. [ Diane Atkinson (8 February 2018). Rise Up Women!: The Remarkable Lives of the Suffragettes. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 129.]
Duval was the founder of the Men's Political Union for Women's Enfranchisement; son of Emily Hayes Duval and brother of Elsie Duval — both fellow suffragists. Elsie was the second person to be released under the Prisoners (Temporary Discharge for Ill Health) Act 1913 (the so-called "Cat and Mouse law"), [ Elizabeth Crawford (2013). "Elsie Duval". Women's Suffrage Movement. pp. 179 — 180. ISBN 1135434026.] and wife to Hugh Franklin. Duval's father, Ernest Charles Augustus Diederichs Duval, was a German immigrant. ["Naturalisations published in the Jewish Chronicle between 1902 and 1906. Extracted by Ian Melville". Ancestry.co.uk. [permanent dead link]]
As a response to the scandal, Mrs. Duval wrote 'To Love Honour — But Not Obey'. [Duval, Una (1912). Love and Honour But Not Obey. UK: George Villiers Press.1]
[Wikipedia: Una Duval.]
[Source: Love and Honour But Not Obey (no ebook available.]